Death Row Movies, Movies about Death Row

Here we've displayed a list of the best Death Row films : Dancer in the Dark(2000), The Thin Blue Line(1988), Just Mercy(2019), I Want to Live!(1958), The Noose(1928), The Rising of the Moon(1957), Shepherds and Butchers(2016), The Hoodlum Priest(1961), The 7th Dawn(1964), Return to Sender(2004), Black Friday(1940), True Story(2015) ... ...

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Dancer in the Dark

An East European girl travels to the United States with her young son, expecting it to be like a Hollywood film.

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The Thin Blue Line

A film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas.

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Just Mercy

World-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.

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I Want to Live!

A prostitute, sentenced to death for murder, pleads her innocence.

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The Noose

A crook blackmails a governor because of knowing his wife's dark past.

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The Rising of the Moon

Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In "The Majesty of the Law," a police officer must arrest a very old-fashioned, traditional fellow for assault... See full summary »

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Shepherds and Butchers

A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.

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The Hoodlum Priest

Based on the life of Fr. Charles Clark, a minister to street gangs.

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The 7th Dawn

Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.

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Return to Sender

While fighting for a woman who sits on death row, a lawyer happens upon new information which brings into question the motives of a man associated with her client.

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Black Friday

Dr. Sovac transplants the brain of a gangster into his professor friend's body to save his life, but there is a side effect that causes a dangerous split personality.

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True Story

When disgraced New York Times reporter Michael Finkel meets accused killer Christian Longo - who has taken on Finkel's identity - his investigation morphs into a game of cat-and-mouse.

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Before I Hang

A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jekyll-&-Hyde.

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The Lazarus Project

A former criminal is drawn into a criminal endeavor and subsequently finds himself living an inexplicable new life working at a psychiatric facility.

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Full Confession

A Catholic priest by the name of Father Loma must convince a man to step forward to save an innocent man from being sent to the electric chair.

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The Chamber

A young man fresh out of law school tries to win a reprieve for his racist grandfather who is on death row.

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Gamer

In a future mind-controlling game, death row convicts are forced to battle in a 'Doom'-type environment. Convict Kable, controlled by Simon, a skilled teenage gamer, must survive thirty sessions in order to be set free.

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Crimewave

A pair of whacked-out cartoon-like exterminator/hitmen kill the owner of a burglar-alarm company, and stalk the partner who hired them, his wife, and a nerd framed for the murder, who tells the story in flashback from the electric chair.

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Ernest Goes to Jail

Bank janitor Ernest P. Worrell is called to jury duty and soon finds himself in trouble when the lookalike defendant's attorney arranges a switch and has Ernest sent to prison in his client's place.

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Half Past Dead

This movie tells the story of a man who goes undercover in a hi-tech prison to find out information to help prosecute those who killed his wife. While there he stumbles onto a plot involving a death-row inmate and his $200 million stash of gold.

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Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story

A black janitor (Courtney B. Vance) receives public support after he is wrongfully convicted of murdering a Texas teenager.

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Yield to the Night

In the shadow of her impending execution, an anguished woman recounts the chain of events which drove her to murder.

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The Naked Street

A reporter follows the story of a gangster (Anthony Quinn), his sister (Anne Bancroft) and her small-time hoodlum husband (Farley Granger).

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Touched by a Killer

A reporter (Isabella Hofmann) believes a murderer (James Wilder) on death row is innocent and fights to overturn his conviction.

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Karma

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